Should not be using doc values, as suggested in one of the stackoverflow answers (it's not letting me post the link here)
GET my_index/_search
{
"_source": ["file_types", "link_to_file"],
"query": {
"bool": {
"filter": [
{
"term": {
"_id": "45t8724b811b590d54cc1925166a9cb5"
}
}
]
}
},
"script_fields": {
"file_types_len": {
"script": "params._source.file_types.length"
},
"link_to_file_len": {
"script": "params._source.link_to_file.length"
}
}
}
Is the way to query.